• Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      I’m just the opposite, since the first time I realized that companies mark up prices on things at the end of the year just so they can “discount” them for black Friday deals has made me want to punch a lot of people.
      The fact that it has gotten so bad that just about everything costs more from Nov-Jan makes me want to stab some people.

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          2 hours ago

          Camelcamelcamel and keepa are both awesome, but Amazon has caught on to them and will now pull listings to leave only the higher priced listing available. Since those listings have some history and have not changed in price, it will show up as not fluctuating.

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        12 hours ago

        Don’t forget that Black Friday only SKUs are a thing. They take an existing product and make one that is cosmetically the same but make the insides worse. They then pass that off as the original and mark it as on sale.

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      10 hours ago

      I was able to get an 8-string headless guitar at close to half the price. Then recouped a little more by selling my current guitar. So all in all I “spent” 1/3 of the original price. One of best bang-for-buck deals I’ve gotten in a while.